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1678-1687

  • بیست از دزدان بدند آنجا و بیش ** بخش می‌کردند مسروقات خویش
  • In that place there were twenty thieves and more, dividing the things they had stolen.

  • شحنه را غماز آگه کرده بود ** مردم شحنه بر افتادند زود
  • The perfect had been apprised by an informer: the prefect’s men quickly fell upon them.

  • هم بدان‌جا پای چپ و دست راست ** جمله را ببرید و غوغایی بخاست 1680
  • He (the officer in charge) cut off on the spot the left feet and right hands of them all, and a great hubbub arose.

  • دست زاهد هم بریده شد غلط ** پاش را می‌خواست هم کردن سقط
  • The ascetic’s hand too was cut off by mistake; he (the officer) was about to make his foot also fall (to the ground),

  • در زمان آمد سواری بس گزین ** بانگ بر زد بر عوان کای سگ ببین
  • (When), just in time, a very elect cavalier came up and shouted at the officer, “Look out, O dog!

  • این فلان شیخست از ابدال خدا ** دست او را تو چرا کردی جدا
  • This is such-and-such a Shaykh, (one) of the Abdál (exalted saints) of God: why have you severed his hand?”

  • آن عوان بدرید جامه تیز رفت ** پیش شحنه داد آگاهیش تفت
  • The officer rent his garment and went speedily to the prefect and gave him the information at once.

  • شحنه آمد پا برهنه عذرخواه ** که ندانستم خدا بر من گواه 1685
  • The prefect came bare-footed, begging pardon. “I did not know,” he said; “God will bear me witness.

  • هین بحل کن مر مرا زین کار زشت ** ای کریم و سرور اهل بهشت
  • Pray now absolve me from this foul deed, O generous man and chief of the (destined) inhabitants of Paradise!”

  • گفت می‌دانم سبب این نیش را ** می‌شناسم من گناه خویش را
  • He (the Shaykh) said, “I know the cause of this (wound inflicted by the) knife: I recognise my sin.